“A new US embassy cable released by Wikileaks today showing U.S. doubts about Saudi oil supplies. While this is nothing new to anyone in the peak oil community, it will help force this issue to become more mainstream.”

“Eric Daniels, the chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group, is in line to receive a bonus of about £1.4m for last year…The figure has been broadly settled on by the Lloyds remuneration committee and discussed with UK Financial Investments (UKFI), which manages the taxpayer’s 41 per cent shareholding in the bank, in recent weeks.”